Tuesday, September 15, 2009

The birth of a goblin

First off for this post to make since you need to have been following the greedy goblin fairly regularly.

So here I was a few week's ago sitting at 300g after a progression night on my entire account. Now I followed the greedy goblin a lot, and noticed some of the things he was doing and decided it wouldn't hurt to try. So I dusted off the old mage, and listed about 40 bag's figuring I would take a loss, so I logged off for dinner and about an hour and a half later I logged back in to a full mail box and an empty AH, there was an 80g profit yay! So then I really started looking more into the AH, and have found some things that sell really really well and have been manipulating the market for the past week or two for a wopping 9k profit...

Also my mage is becoming a regular old goblin on his own, stealing a really nice ulduar cape from the shaman, and also a good pair of gloves the day before, but oh well he is already ulduar 25 gear without even stepping foot past the anti-chamber in ulduar. pretty sad isnt it.

Sunday, August 23, 2009

Late Night Shenanigans

So it was turning late a few nights ago, and we were running some reg ToC run's and finished ported back to dalarn. So on my mage I went to go sit in my normal seat to enjoy a night of talking on vent and wow... until someone was in it... some stupid pally then it became a game, joined by a few other guildies it became a night full of late night pranks. We all decided to follow a random alliance pally, wich was hillarious but was even better when he got into our group just to DI someone and commit suicide. Then we followed another random stranger for a few, until we decided to get a lock and get into the horde only inn and say hello to the hordies, and generally goof around until the wee hours of the morning, more story to come of this......

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

UI's, Speed runs, and Ulduar oh my!


So after about 4 years of WoW on and off I finally got to the point where I wanted something different with my UI, so with the help from a friend I decided to change the look of my UI by a ton.... its not as hard as it looks, and is really helpful for raids when you finish it, of course mine isnt as racey as ahm's is but it gets the job done all the same.

Also during the past week or so, a few of us have been pushing really hard to run speed run's of heroics for easy epics.. to view a list of times and the racey UI look here Stories Of The Tentacled Mind. Speed run's are a blast to do, the only problem now is that we have been ramping down a lot, expecially on raid days when there is raid prep to do, bosses to preview ect.... and a lot of people are still wanting us to clear every heroic every day, which is fine if there was no door boss at all.

Finally Finally our guild managed to drop freya in ulduar on friday night.... let me give you a run down of the fight..
wipe 1
raid leader wanted us to control burn the 3 add's and drop them one at a time... wipe
wipe 2
same strat. except with 2 healers... wipe
wipe 3
another controlled burn but with assigned groups.... wipe
finally on I think the 4th attempt, our raid leader said in a PG way basically "Fuck it just burn them down and we will see what happens"
easy epics. so I guess the fuck it additude really does work sometimes..

Friday, August 14, 2009

Huge thank you to everyone

Well I have to type this thank you to everyone, as of last night according to wow-heroes, I have managed to sneak into the top 20 overall gear score for alliance resto shaman's, now I know a lot of people say that gear score doesn't mean a lot. But they have to realize for a casual raider, and in a casual raid guild getting to this point is a HUGE accomplishment, and it's not just gear score, new content came out recently (trial of the crusaider) and as a guild we managed to clear it in 3 tries, and then to ice the cake so to speak Sholderguards of the Spirit Walker drop, and by shear luck and I think in some cases pitty from my jaw hitting the floor that I managed to get them as an upgrade. It's amazing what it takes to get someone to this point in the game, and I just have to thank everyone who pushed, pulled, dragged, and helped in any way shape or form to get me to where I am. So from the bottom of my heart thank you.

New Patch New shaman

Well it has been a long time since I have wrote anything on here, so this might turn into a long post to start off I am no longer a melee dps'er I have switched spec's into healing and have never looked back. Let's see progress into ulduar has been very slow only major achievement is that we cleared hodir after some trial and error and even managed to snag Cheese the freeze along the way. Thought that was great for us.

Let's see 3.2 has rolled around since the last time I posted so figure I might as well elaborate on those changes
  • Changes to riptide are amazing and a great situational tool for us now, old style i was at a .68 second LHW cast that was completely wasted, under the new set up my LHW crit is just over 62% and my HW cast time is at 1.3 seconds, or 1.15ish with a trinket proced (did notice in 10 man buffed with both trinkets up im at a .997 cast time).
  • IWS now proc's off of chain heal jumps, this has already proven to be a HUGE benefit to our mana regan, found myself casting a lot of chain heals when I was only healer up on phase 3 of ToC and could have pretty much casted endlessly.
  • Gear from badges, im happy/sad/indifferent from the changes, they have benefited me greatly I am currently in the top 20 overall resto shaman's on ther server (big prop's to everyone) but it makes it easy for bad players to get good gear and that is just wrong.
Let's see thats about all the info I can think of currently.

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Naxx 10 fail group, and Ulduar day 1

So went to ulduar last night with the guild, was healing along with our other shammy (green lines of life ftw) and another pally healer. Went extremely smooth no-one died on FT, Only I died on XT (evil evil bombs ftl) and we cleared 2 more bosses after an attempt or two. Had a blast and goes to show how a good group can do good things together.

On the the main topic of the night, Just left a PuG'd naxx10 run. Was hoping to pick up my T7 sholders, and leg's but NOOOO!!!! I started off healing with 2 tree's. Starting on patchwork went fine killed him 30 seconds short of his enrage, so we were a little low on dps but heals/tanks were fine. Grob we wiped on once, due to people not watching clouds. 2nd time went just fine. Then gluth.. FAIL epic fail, wiped 3 times, decided to go to arachnid. Couldnt even kill the first boss, with a pally bitching at me because my heals wern't high enough, told me to go dps. (mind you pally wouldnt buff anyone and was barely doing 1100dps) switched to dps, 2400dps ftw (not a lot but topped dmg charts) and got bitched at again, this time for dieing because I had to try to keep add's of healers!!! Yay! I don't know why I still pug content lol. Guess im to spoiled over guild run's.

Monday, July 6, 2009

PuG's 25 man content, and guild naxx day 2

So yesterday before naxx10 I pugged up a 25 man OS, they said they needed a dps and i figured why not it doesnt take to long to do. Once I got there a healer had to drop out and the raid leader asked if I could heal instead, which was fine, loot rolls were as followed roll for main spec. Now I assumed that since I started the run dps and switched to healers out of the benifit of the raid I would be able to roll for dps. Well the run went really smoth finished it in under 25min. Then loot gets started they start with my teir token. We start rolling for it when he asked, and I rolled a 98 woot! But wait, we still had a guild member of his dead (hunter) and since he was dead no rolls counted, we all had to re-roll (just me and him) and he beat me on the 2nd roll. Okay at this point I was pissed, then loot continued. A really good melee dps trinket dropped, and again I rolled really high (95 i think, RNG loved me that run). But wait, 2nd place was a DK guildy of his that rolled a 90 and then bitched about a healer rolling for melee dps trinket, when clearly I joined the raid as melee dps and melee dps is my main spec, so I got screwed out of all the loot from os25 and was in a really bad mood and going to guild naxx10 where about 6 of the people running day 2 are new to naxx, or new to me running with them

Started with spider's. Wasn't watching time was sulking in my own little world, next thing I know 45 minutes in we cleared spider's (and a 5 min boss explination before each boss). Then plague the dance of course was a bitch, ended up with MT, OT, one ranged dps and me healing the last 30% yay! but cleared it just fine, and even thaddius died quick, although healing thaddius is a brain overload for me. Killed gluth in 2 tries thanks to our lock swapping to his druid for another tank.

Starting naxx day 3 tonight hopefully going to drop Saph and KT tonight, wish me luck for my upgrade fist weapon and maybe helm tonight!!!

Friday, July 3, 2009

I don't carry all this armor around for good looks....

So ran one of my first fairly descent naxx25 runs tonight, but caught a little gripe from some of the members, first off let me say the guild that was running it was a good group of people and did a fairly good job. Half way through the run we lost a healer, I was 3rd in overall dmg but I did have my healer gear with me and we really did want to pug up another healer, so I switched off and we kept rolling with a 24 man. Then it happened, got some good enhance shammy/hunter loot, of course the raid leader said at the start of the run that you will be rolling for the spec that you started the run with. So here I am in my healer gear with enhance shammy gear staring me in the face, and much to my delight the raid leader asked if I was going to roll on enhance or heals, then the loot bitching started, everyone was furious that I got choice of spec to roll on, of course healer did do a good job saying I split the duty's 50/50 and realisticly I should get to pick one or the other, of course a quick look at the only other hunter in the run who never said a word about me rolling was wearing a blue in that slot, so i passed on it for someone who is doing a good job and not bitching to get a good upgrade, it was only a minimal upgrade for me besides im waiting for main hand fist weapon off good ol KT.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Dailys the bane of my existence

So I finally got tired of everyone picking on me for not having my fast mount, and decided to start running dailys, using my tradeskills ect. You know the stuff we are supposed to do to make money? I have come to find out that I hate running dailys, I can run 200 quests a day no problem but those 25 daily quests are killing me! Thankfully it wont be a whole lot longer and they will stop picking on me and go back to gnome bashing.

Wednesday, July 1, 2009

New night at naxx, new video card :-)

So I ran naxx10 last night with guild, had the video card and power supply together and running perfect never dropped below 50fps. This is just a foot note of the night though. It is amazing how some people can surprise you, I was healing last night given we had an inexperienced healer with us and man did he do awsome! I knew the fights, knew most of the core raiders so I knew who to heal, who to watch, who would die very very fast (and the little gnome never did die at all) but Ahm had never ran naxx, only read the fights had ran a lot of 5 mans but never full 10 man content. He gave me a run for my money as far as heals, and I am an naxx/ulduar gear and was on raid heals! He is in greens/blues ect, Its just nice to see people know how to play there class well, who pay attention and who listen to RL and any and all advice he was given. Really looking foward to night 2 and really looking forward to seeing when he get some upgrades.

Monday, June 29, 2009

Healing at 5 frames per second


So here is a little insite into my life, I guess I am just a glutton for punishment, I pug a ton of heroics/raids ect... and until recently I was playing WoW on my poor little laptop. An average night in naxx I would see anything from 5-15 fps, tried to do one 25 man raid (naxx) and was running 2.1 fps.. glad it failed early :-). So today I managed to get some money together and pick up a new monitor for my desktop, and got WoW hooked up and running GREAT! Was having a blast and a guildy asked me to heal OK so I wanted to see what my pc was capable of so went. Was running a little over 50fps most of the run until the 2nd boss..... Half way through the fight my video card decided to die, I immediatly dropped to 5fps and stayed there the rest of the run. So much fun healing people at 5fps I think everyone need's to try it. So managed to get ahold of my uncle picked up a new video card off of him, ATI 4350 1gig ram, installing it right now hopefully I will finally be able to play WoW in real time and not thinking whats going to happen in 5 seconds.

Sunday, June 28, 2009

Gear Score?

So for a long time I was obsessed with gear score, uber leet gear, and getting gear out the arse. This went against every philosophy of my guild and they always kept reminding me that gear doesnt make the player, player makes the gear. Now I dont think im bad with my shammy in dps or heals but I had a revilation last night, got into a PuG for HoL as healer.... yay, we were one dps short and the group leader wouldnt invite a mage due to a low gear score (low figrativly speaking for refrence his gear score was 1500). Mage did really good, our DK dps couldnt figure out a whirl wind to save his ass, he did die a lot but he was a good sport about it. Tank did a good job, the uber elite gear score obsessed leader was only pulling 1400dps.. Then we get to loken and everything goes bad, they think they are uber dps and opt to just stay in for his lightning nova, now I should have been able to heal through his nova but for some reason I just couldnt heal through it. 2 wipes later we do it the old fashion way and clear it and leave.

A lot of lead up I know, but a few day's ago I was running dps in a guild HoL run to help a guildy and awsome guy/player gear up to be ready for naxx, he was healing never had a single problem never had a single death. Everything went flawless and except for a malestrom weapon chain heal or 2 on loken (which is never out of the ordinary) he did a phinominal job healing, mostly in blues/greens. So this was a really good culture shock to me to not worry about gear, gear score and just focus on players abilitys...

In my honost opinion gear score is the worst thing ever invented...

Saturday, June 27, 2009

Shammys + PvP dont mix

So was logging in today and some how or another we managed to get into a 5v5 guild group going, myself, 3 pallys and a rogue. Most of us have ran arena with each other before and we all knew our respective classes really well. I have come to one conclusion in PvP if the rogue is stealthed and you have dog's following you run... fast.... they are coming for you, I got burned down before I could blink 90% of the time, needless to say after 10 losses im really not looking foward to another 5v5.

Background

Well a little about myself and my shammy, came back into WoW after a really long break to find that I had no love for my mage anymore (R.I.P. Mals) but did have a level 19 shammy sitting there doing nothing. After some debate I logged into him and a really lucky run in with my old guild leader I managed to get back into my old guild. Then the fun started had nothing to do buy play some WoW so I went nuts leveling and hit 80 quick, just about 2 weeks to get there. So now I am stuck with shammy and can't seem to play much anything else.